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海の上 · Boat shows on now, this week's stories from each region, and what its press is covering — in English

On view

On the water this week the newest stories from the region's press

The wire the region's press, translated

How yachting moves in 2026 from the industry's own reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

Nami (波) is a magazine, a radar and a diary about the world's great yachts, kept from Tokyo for readers everywhere.

Nami means wave. A magazine, because every week one boat deserves to be looked at slowly: the explorer that will never see a marina, the sloop drawn like a knife, the 100-metre that is really a house. A radar, because we count what the yards and the yachting press are talking about right now — hybrids, refits, glass, teak, the beach club — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read from Viareggio to Vollenhove, from Fort Lauderdale to Hong Kong, in English, Italian and Japanese. Everything here links back to the people who built it; the images belong to their authors.

Nami will keep changing: new sources, new signals, a little better each week, never finished. If a boat here made you look at the horizon, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。

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The racing year

Where the fleet will be, month by month: 32 fixtures from the Caribbean 600 in February to the Hobart on Boxing Day. Each name links to the organiser, and the organiser is the only source we trust for a date.

We give the window, not the day. Dates move with the tides, the calendar and the weather, and a wrong date here would be worse than none — so every entry sends you to the people who set it.

February

RORC Caribbean 600 Antigua and Barbuda
600 miles around eleven Caribbean islands from Antigua
Usually February

March

Sydney Harbour Regatta Australia
Autumn regatta on Sydney Harbour, run by Middle Harbour Yacht Club
Usually March

April

Rolex China Sea Race Hong Kong
565 miles from Hong Kong to Subic Bay, run by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club
Every other year, around Easter

Antigua Sailing Week Antigua and Barbuda
Caribbean racing week out of English and Falmouth Harbours
Usually the end of April into May

May

VELA Cup Italy
Open Italian regatta series, one weekend a stop
Spring and summer weekends

June

Yacht Club Italiano season Italy
Genoa's club, organiser of the Giraglia and the Regate del Tigullio
Season runs from spring

Kieler Woche Germany
The world's largest sailing event by participants, on the Kiel Fjord
Usually late June

The Superyacht Cup Palma Spain
Europe's longest-running superyacht regatta, in the Bay of Palma
Usually late June

Newport Bermuda Race United States
635 miles across the Gulf Stream from Newport to Bermuda
Even years, in June

July

Transpac United States
2,225 miles from Los Angeles to Diamond Head, Honolulu
Odd years, in July

Rolex Fastnet Race United Kingdom
Cowes to Cherbourg by way of the Fastnet Rock, run by the RORC
Every other year, high summer

Puig Vela Clàssica Barcelona Spain
Classic and vintage yachts off Barcelona
Usually July

August

Cowes Week United Kingdom
Eight days of racing in the Solent, held since 1826
Usually early August

Palermo-Montecarlo Italy
500 miles from Sicily to Monaco
Usually August

September

Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Italy
The maxi fleet off Porto Cervo, hosted by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda
Usually early September

Rolex Big Boat Series United States
San Francisco Bay's keelboat series at the St Francis Yacht Club
Usually September

Rolex Swan Cup Italy
Nautor Swan's gathering of its own fleet at Porto Cervo
Every other year, in September

Régates Royales Cannes France
Classic yachts and Dragons off Cannes
Usually late September

Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez France
Modern and classic fleets in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez
Usually late September into October

October

Barcolana Italy
The largest regatta in the world by entries, in the Gulf of Trieste
The second Sunday of October; the organiser's own page gives 2–11 October 2026

Rolex Middle Sea Race Malta
606 miles around Sicily from Grand Harbour, Valletta
Usually late October

Transat Café L'Or France
Double-handed transatlantic from Le Havre, formerly the Transat Jacques Vabre
Odd years, from late October

November

Route du Rhum France
Solo transatlantic from Saint-Malo to Guadeloupe
Every four years, starting in November

Vendée Globe France
Solo, non-stop, unassisted round the world from Les Sables-d'Olonne
Every four years, starting in November

Hong Kong to Vietnam Race Hong Kong
Offshore race from Hong Kong to Nha Trang, run by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club
Usually autumn

December

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Australia
628 miles from Sydney Heads to the Derwent
Starts on Boxing Day, 26 December, every year

Through the year

America's Cup International
The oldest trophy in international sport; the 38th match is in preparation
When the challenge is settled

SailGP International
National teams racing F50 foiling catamarans
A season of grands prix across the year

52 Super Series International
The TP52 circuit, the highest level of monohull grand prix racing
A circuit of five or six events a season

The Ocean Race International
Crewed round the world, in one-design and IMOCA fleets
Every few years, over several months

J Class Association International
The J Class fleet and where the great boats race
A handful of regattas a season

Japan Sailing Federation Japan
The national calendar: every class and every regatta in Japan
Year-round